Vision

Vision

I had a dream the other night

you had a dream of me.

I hold a candle to the mirror

to see the way you see.

In your eyes the good I've done

crumbles down around my feet

but in your dreams I'm luminous

reflecting all your dreams.

© by Sarah Fairchild, October 11, 2001

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Notes:

→ Incidentally, this reminds me of the “Luminous Mysteries” of the rosary, which ends with the Eucharist; in which Christ is celebrated, living in the communion bread and wine, and in the recipient's heart, mind, and soul.

→ See the Notes to my poem I Drēmpte; What we leave behind; Unwitting reply to 'Vision'.

→ I do understand, by the way, that two interpretations of this poem are possible. In one, all the good she has done is for naught; it is been a complete failure. Yet in the other interpretation, it is not what she has done, what she has accomplished, that is good, but rather her spirit, which is luminous. And she was right; it was the latter interpretation that I embraced. As I see my notes in  I Drēmpte; what she built was not what mattered because the Kingdom of God was within her, as it is in us all. As I saw her, see her, what she built was just an echo of what was within her.

→ Sarah made a point of recording that this poem was written on October 11. It is ironic that in 2012, 11 years later, October 11th was declared by the United Nations to be the International Day of the Girl Child. It was the child within Sarah that was so luminous, as it can be . . . ought to be . . .  in us all. Then after another 11 years had elapsed, I had my dream and wrote my poem. It seems that her poem was prophetic in more than one way . . . in my humble opinion it was at very least reflective of Jung's concept of synchronicity.